National security

Vladimir Putin forms super-spy agency 'even more powerful than KGB' hours after election victory

Vladimir Putin is getting set to effectively reinstate the infamous KBG, according to Russian news reports.

The president, whose party won a huge victory in the country’s parliamentary elections yesterday, is planning to create a new spy ministry reminiscent of the Soviet security agency.

President Putin wants to strengthen control over the country’s top spies and dampen any potential protests despite the resounding win for his pro-Kremlin United Russia.

The new mega-spy agency the Ministry of State Security (MGB) will even carry the same name as the Stalin-era intelligence agency, which existed between 1946 and 1953, before the creation of the KGB (Committee for State Security).